Hilarie Owen Chief Executive, Institute of Leadership (UK)

Hilarie Owen's career began as a political scientist, but changed when she joined the corporate world. Following a successful career in corporate business, in which she turned one company around and increased growth by 600 percent, she had a year secondment with the UK Department of Trade and Industry that progressed into business consultancy. After ten years and her first best selling book, Creating Top Flight Teams, Hilarie set up the Institute of Leadership (a not for profit organization), launching in 2000. Since then her books In Search of Leaders and Unleashing Leaders have sold worldwide including China, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, South Africa, Australia and the United States. Following this, Ms. Owen wrote Grow Your Personal Capital and The Leadership Manual. Her unique and original philosophy on leadership has touched many worldwide through her books, and more can be found on the web site www.iofl.org.

The Institute of Leadership focuses on research and developing lifelong leadership potential beginning around five years of age. When studying leadership, she found that when women are put in positional leadership they are far more transformational. With this in mind, Hilarie has now set up the Register for Executive and Non-Executive Women (RENEW) to develop more women into leadership roles. This web site is www.renewuk.com.